The most mature legal departments have at least one dedicated legal operations professional, according to the 2020 Legal Operations Maturity Benchmarking Report published on Tuesday by the Association of Corporate Counsel and Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory.

The report based its results on the ACC’s 15-prong maturity model and data from 316 legal departments across 29 countries and 24 industries. The maturity model for legal departments includes compliance, financial management and information governance.